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From: cleto@e-link.ch (Cleto Pescia)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Iomega Tape 250 timeouts on ASUS on-board fdc0
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:05:31 GMT
Organization: Eurisco Information Systems
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:

>Can you try a different (external) floppy controller?  The UMC8669F on
>the P55T2P4 is known to be not bug-compatible with the NE765.

Unfortunately, that's not an option, since I don't have any free ISA
slot... Anyway, thanks a lot for the tip.

>Bruce Evans found a suitable workaround to at least get the diskettes
>working on it, i'm afraid nobody has tested floppy tape access on
>these FDCs yet.

Indeed, floppies seem to be working just fine on my P55T2P4, which
happens to be rev. 2.1

Cleto